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4 Reasons to Include Labs in Your Homeschool

August 16, 2018 by Ben

Let’s get real for a moment. Teaching high school science is intimidating. I still remember how nervous my homeschool mom was about high school science. When I got to physics, we couldn’t find any labs kits. It was a nightmare. My dad helped me do one physics lab without a kit. That single lab cost […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: biblical worldview, Creational Learning, hands-on learning, high school, high school transcript, Labs, Logos Science, science

Building Understanding with Negative Numbers

June 19, 2018 by Ben

By the time I got to junior high, I was really confused about negative numbers. At first it was simple, but concepts like multiplying negatives and absolute value taxed my understanding. Of course, I joined in on the chorus sung by every math student who doesn’t understand what he or she is supposed to be […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: hands-on learning, homeschool, math, negative numbers, Number Lines

Learning Place Value with a Hands-on Activity

May 17, 2018 by Ben

As a homeschool dad, I found it easy to fall into the trap of believing that my young child understood a number because she could say it and count to it. When my second daughter was in kindergarten, we enjoyed skip counting to a trillion by 100 billions. She felt like she grasped the number […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: hands-on learning, math, Math 1, number sense

Help Your Second Grader with Division

April 19, 2018 by Ben

As your homeschool child becomes proficient in multiplication, it’s time to introduce division. Typically, children become comfortable with division in their third-grade year of math. But the end of second grade is a good time to introduce the concept. Since math models God’s creational order, it helps to introduce division with physical objects. Using objects […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: Christian Homeschooling, Guided Discovery, hands-on learning, Interactive Learning, math, Math 2

Lego® Role-Play for Learning History

March 1, 2018 by Ben

My oldest daughter learns verbally. She reads with understanding and incorporates new vocabulary into her responses to questions about material she’s learning. That makes teaching history to her easy and enjoyable. I am verbal, too, when sharing historical narratives and explaining conflicts of the past. So I was surprised when she started struggling early in […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: Christian Homeschooling, Constitution, hands-on learning, history, Role-play

Activity for Simplifying Ratios

February 22, 2018 by Ben

Ratios compare two quantities that are related. It’s a concept that can be challenging for kids to understand. As a child, I could solve problems related to ratios, but I never quite “got it” . . . that is, until my mother was teaching me how to half a recipe. For the recipe to work, […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: hands-on learning, math, Math 5, Teaching for Understanding

Playing with Spelling Words

February 1, 2018 by Megan

From my daughter’s very first spelling test in first grade, I knew that she was going to struggle. And I knew that I was going to have to find ways to help her learn those spelling words. I soon realized that even though writing the words and spelling them aloud helped a little, in order […]

Filed Under: Successful Learning Tagged With: hands-on learning, kinesthetic learner, sensory activity, spelling

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